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Roamin' the Big Green

Frantic, but fun ...

BY C. T. MITCHELL You'll find out why when you read the story on elsewhere in this issue.

It's semi-annual "crunch" time in Old Main 115 as we put *** *** *** together the spring magazine and the March Green Line almost simultaneously. Because of printing schedules-it takes longer It's been an even better season for another to print the magazine-the deadlines for both publications fall team-Marshall's Green Gals, who knocked off Fairmont to within the same week. The same holds true for the fall win their fourth West Virginia Women's Intercollegiate Ath­ magazine and the September Green Line. letic Association basketball championship in five years. That It's frantic, but fun. . . · moved their season record to 17 wins and five losses and put them in the mid western regional playoffs. The Green Gals *** *** *** and their exploits also are described elsewhere in this issue.

A lot of good things are happening as this is being written *** *** *** on this last day of February, with spring just around the corner. The greatest of course, was the delivery of Marshall's Turning to another area, President Barker recently formal medical school application to the director of the announced the first allocations from the Forward Marshall Veterans Administration in Washington. Making the delivery, campaign with funds going to the business program, student in addition to President Barker, were Governor Moore and financial aid, distinguished lectureships, research, the Oral Senators Randolph and Byrd-an impressive delegation in any History of Appalachia project, and alumni affairs. Thus we are beginning to see some excellent results from a campaign which league. To say they received a warm reception would be an understatement. Now we'll cross our fingers and await the is shaping up as one of Marshall's most successful efforts. As of the moment, cash and pledges stand at about VA's decision. $440,000 in the three-year campaign that was kicked off only last July. Obviously, prospects for meeting the $495,000 goal *** *** *** are excellent. We're especially pleased with the response of alumni to the Also on the bright side is the allocation of $100,000 to campaign. Marshall grads have sent in cash and pledges of Marshall by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency about $85,000-which has to be some sort of record for alumni and Corrections. This will permit us to start a two-year degree giving to the old school. program in criminal justice and four-year degree programs in On the other hand, I'm personally disappointed that the corrections and in law enforcement. The new programs are $85 ,000 has come from fewer than 500 alumni-a relative expected to be in operation by next fall. handful when you consider there are more than 21,000 of us. Forward Marshall is designed with one purpose in mind--to *** *** *** give Marshall the "edge" it needs to become an outstanding university. My own goals are somewhat more optimistic than As this is being written, the Thundering Herd is in the final the official goals in the Forward Marshall drive. stage of what has been a surprisingly successful basketball I believe we can hit $750,000 in this campaign. And I campaign. believe we can see thousands of Marshall alumni helping the Although this hasn't been a 20-victory season, it has been a university reach its goals, rather than the few hundreds who winning season-to the amazement of many, including yours have given their support so far. I believe the alumni can put truly. This was supposed to be, and in a sense has been, a twice as much into the campaign as the $85 ,000 contributed rebuilding season for the Herd after the loss of such as Mike so far. D'Antoni, Randy Noll, Bill James and Ty Collins from last Most of all, I believe we can see the day when West year's NIT team. Lacking a "star" and plagued with injuries Virginians mean Marshall when they refer to "The University." and inexperience, the Herd has had a most successful season. Let's give it a try.

2 MARSHALL

VOL.XV April 1974 No. 1

Published for Marshall Alumni by the Marshall University Alumni Association in cooperation with the Marshall Office of University Relations

CONTENTS

Roamin' the (Big) Green 2

'Hillbilly' Professor 4

Alumni Weekend 8

Football •74 .. 9

Marshall Album IO

Bob Daniels 14

Green Gals . 17

Memorial Student Center and Memories of Shawkey . 20

Alumni Report . 22

Alumni Tours . . 23

STAFF: Editor, Everett N. Roush; Managing Editor, C. T. Mitchell; Editorial Assistants, Don Meadows and Jack Seamonds; Sports, Sam Stanley; Production, David R. Collins, Shirley Dyer, Georgia Childers.

COVER: Color photograph by Bob Campbell. Back cover: A busy spider provided a glowing mantle for the bust of John Marshall. Photograph by Joan Mitchell ('53).

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3 'Hillbilly' Professor

BY DON MEADOWS professional hillbilly on campus. Some of them don't like it, but that doesn't bother me." · He's not your average American university professor. You'd Being "just me" can have its drawbacks. One such incident never suspect he's the chairman of a major department. happened in Chicago. The lines on his face are deep. They hint of long, hard "I was up there one Easter back several years ago to be hours under a blazing sun. Outside the classroom he usually interviewed for a job with the American Medical Association drags at a Lucky Strike, unfiltered. as a human ecologist. I'd already been interviewed, and it was His suit may be neatly pressed. Just as often, it is wrinkled. a cold, rainy, blustery Easter morning. The dining room in the His tie may be neatly snug around his collar. It's just as likely hotel didn't open until late, and l got up-I tend to be an early to be loose. His sandy brown, graying hair might be neatly riser. combed. Or, it might not. Obviously he doesn't spend a great "Well, the hotel was at the edge of the downtown ghetto deal of time worrying about his appearance. area, where a lot of Appalachians lived. I was standing on the It's not that he doesn't care, but other things are more street corner, trying to decide whether to go this way or that important. way. l had a raincoat that I'd stuffed under my arm. It was all His office is a mess. There's no other way to describe it. It wrinkled when I put it on, and I didn't have a hat on and the is a jumble of books, papers, tape recorders, office duplicating rain was coming down and my hair was all out of shape. A machines, record players, albums, extension speakers. policeman walked up and I started to ask him where a good "Sit down if you can find a place," he tells the caller, his restaurant was. right hand making a sweeping motion. You find a chair and "He said, 'Where you from, boy?' "make yourself to home." "I told him I was from West Virginia and was looking for a "My first question, Dr. Simpkins: 'Are you for real?'" place to eat. Then he said, 'Maybe you'd better come down to He laughs, exposing two rows of uneven teeth. The laughter the station with me.' stops and he looks you in the eye. "I asked him what for, and he said , 'Well, you're here and "I don't know. Sometimes, l really don't know," he replies. you don't know where you're going. I think I'd better Make no mistake about it. 0. Norman Simpkins, professor investigate.' and chairman of the Department of Sociology and "I said, 'Fine, but can't you investigate here-I've got Anthropology at Marshall University, is for real. identification cards.' But, he took me on in to the station. For the last 11 years he's been teaching one of Marshall's "After a little discussion I explained to them who I was and most popular courses-Appalachian Culture. It was the first what I was doing up there and so on. They apologized. Well, course on the culture of Appalachia to be developed in the the policeman was going off duty in a few minutes and we got nation. to talking and he took me out to breakfast. The reason for the program's success is Simpkins' total "Over breakfast he told me about the trouble the hillbillies devotion to it. He is Appalachian to the core-and proud of it. up there had caused. He never did explain just why he picked Born Feb. 2, 1918, at Beech Fork, near East Lynn in me up. Maybe he'd had a bad episode just recently and maybe Wayne County, he was the eldest of the four children of T .0. something just alerted him and he thought he'd better check and Callie Simpkins. One of his two brothers was killed during me out. He was a good policeman--not being negligent of his World War II and the other died shortly after the war. His duties, I suppose. sister, Beatrice Matthews, lives in Chesapeake, Ohio. "It did irritate me a little, though, the more I thought of it His father was a farmer and teacher and, for most of his after I got away.'' career, an insurance agent. The elder Simpkins retired two Simpkins graduated from Wayne High School in years ago as head of the Huntington District Office of 1933-"right in the depths of the Depression.'' He was 15 . Appalachian Life Insurance Co. "I skipped the eighth grade," he recalls. "That year was the The Simpkins family is of Scotch-Irish descent, coming to first one they started busing students to school. Well, instead West Virginia by way of Martin County, Kentucky. The family of going on to the eighth grade school, I got off the bus at the is I 00-proof Appalachian. high school and took an entrance exam to go into the ninth It's a heritage many families have tried to ignore or hide. grade and passed." Not Norm Simpkins. Not only did he develop great pride in his After graduating from high school he "did nothing" for background, he's built a career out of it. Today he is three years. "I was too young to get a work permit, and it recognized throughout the nation as an authority on wouldn't have done me any good anyway because there was Appalachian culture. no work." "I've never made any bones about where I came from­ He enrolled in Berea College in Kentucky for two years. whether it was in the Army or wherever I might happen to be. Then World War II and the Army came along. Assigned as a I didn't do that in graduate school. I'm just me. I'm like that combat photographer, he was wounded twice. on committees here at Marshall. They all know I'm the (Continued on page 6)

4 "Approximately two-thirds of all the people from Appalachia who have gone to the big city--Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago--have succeeded. I think that's a pretty good success rate."

5 "Throughout our history as a nation, young people in the rural areas have always come to the city to be a success, or achieve success, primarily because the city has always been where the action is. The city is where you don't drag your background with you. One problem with someone who stays here (in Appalachia) ~ people remember him when he was a dirty-faced kid, or they remember his family being on welfare. You don't have that in the city, and you can break away from that."

(Continued from page 4) restricted like the usual GI in an infantry outfit." During the war, in 1943, he married Katherine Williams, a Simpkins has five D-Day landings on Pacific islands on his girl he had met at Berea. Today she is Dr. Katherine W. military record. His military experiences helped to develop an Simpkins, associate professor of educational foundations at interest in other people. Marshall. "Bu.t the greatest influence, really, was my parents and one After the war he enrolled at Marshall, graduating in 1947. teacher in high school who convinced me I had the ability to He earned his master's degree from Marshall in 1948 and do something with my life. He was my science teacher, Donald taught sociology here during the next two years. Plymale, and he's still living. He retired a couple of years ago He began work on his Ph.D. at the University of North as agriculture teacher at Buffalo High School. And I had some Carolina in 1950 and completed it in 1953. Then he joined the good college teachers, too." Bowling Green University faculty where he remained until Simpkins has built much of his life around Marshall 1957 when he became a member of the University of North University, both as a student and a teacher. "One reason I Carolina faculty. His work with the University of North think so highly of Marshall-with all its handicaps and Carolina involved doing research with the Pueblo Indians in characteristics--is that it has always had a nucleus of very high New Mexico. ' calibre professors who have inspired more students than Simpkins came back to Marshall in 1960 as an associate perhaps they've taught in their classes... Dr. (Robert L.) Beck, professor of sociology and was made department chairman in who taught philosophy here until he died in 1965; Dr. (Harold 1966. M.) Hayward, who was in the Sociology Department until he So the boy from the hills of rural Wayne County carved out retired in 1962; Dr. (N. Bayard) Green who was a senior a successful career for himself among the "city folk" and member of the faculty when I came on as a junior member, despite the odds. How did it happen? and there are a number of others. We still have a number of "There are a number of reasons," he said. "My parents-like professors on the faculty I think very highly of. most Appalachian parents, which I don't think the world "I think Marshall gives more instruction to its freshmen and appreciates-always wanted me to have it better than they had sophomores by persons of high academic quality than just it and did everything to see that I had the chance. l had some about any school I know of." excellent teachers both in elementary and high schools, and Although he omitted his own name, Simpkins is among even in college. I had some poor ones, too. those Marshall faculty members who have inspired others, "My Army experiences helped, too. I traveled quite a bit. I whether they be fellow teachers, students, or the Appalachian happened to be in the right kind of occupation-combat living up Possum Creek Holler. photographer-and I got in on a number of things, you might "He knows his stuff," a student in his Appalachian Culture say, up near the top. I was a member of the American course commented. "He tells it to you like it is in plain, contingent at the Quebec conference where they decided when everyday words. It's almost as if you're sitting there watching D-Day in Normandy was going to be. I photographed Japan's a movie-you can see what he's saying actually happen." surrender on the battleship Missouri. I was attached to General A faculty member put it this way: MacArthur's headquarters for a time. l got exposed to a lot of "He's a little unconventional, unorthodox, I'll have to say. other cultures because as an Army photographer I was not But, in his field he has few equals. Many programs exist here at

6 "Appalachians have a strong attachment to the land, to the old 'homeplace' .. .If you don't believe me, just stand on the Sixth Street Bridge at Huntington and watch. Watch the hearses come over. You'll find there's a much bigger traffic of hearses coming to West Virginia ...than is going the other way. If they can't die here, they want to be buried here."

Mars!1all because of his~ determination and farsightedness. He the University of North Carolina. She's working on her Ph.D. has the unique ability to inspire people, to get them active in at the University of Edinburgh." projects." His son, 19, is in the Army, stationed in Germany. "He's Simpkins' ability to lead has not been confined to Marshall. getting some experience with other cultures," Simpkins said, He is more than a professor. He is a citizen who believes he "and from what he tells me, the Army is not like it was when I owes his community a debt that can be repaid only through was in it. service. "But the idea here is to develop more techniques for In the early l 960's he made many trips to Washington, survival, for making a success of yourself. Travel is one of the D.C., to help write legislation which became known as the best educational devices you can have." "War on Poverty." To Simpkins, education is the doorway to true freedom. "I used to leave here on Friday afternoon and fly to "I have a very pragmatic definition of freedom," he said. Washington, work all day Saturday and Saturday night until "You hear a lot of talk about freedom and individuality and we conked out and work some more Sunday. I'd fly back this sort of thing all done in the abstract. But I've got a very Sunday night and start my class Monday morning," he recalls. operational definition of freedom: 'The more choices you He helped to start the anti-poverty program in South­ have, the greater your freedom is.' western West Virginia and was research advisor when "In other words, freedom is a matter of the number of parent-child centers were being developed in Wayne and choices you have. In a rural area, such as in Appalachia, there Lincoln counties. He instituted a program of neighborhood is less freedom because the people look around the development in Kanawha County and supervised its operation neighborhood and see fewer kinds of occupations, fewer ways during the first months of its existence. of life to learn about unless they get out of the area. There is "I've always argued for people in the rural areas," he said, only one solution, and it's obvious." noting that in rural America, Appalachia or elsewhere, one Simpkins' interest in Appalachian culture developed finds a unique strength, a sense of independence. He identifies somewhat by accident. with it. "In the theory of social change I'm working on, I needed Rural people identify with him, too. He understands their data to back it up. One of the sources was Appalachian problems, their dreams, their frustrations. He is one of them. culture, so I got into that area. But in the past-working with Indians and working overseas, and the literature bears me out "Out in Wayne County I sometimes take some kidding on this-I learned that any area or region whose economy about my job," he said. "People in Appalachia tend to look collapses never is able to build back on an economy based on down on education unless it serves their definite purpose. A the same thing it collapsed with. Also, no people anywhere job is something you do with your back or hands. Teaching who are at the bottom of the ladder, or who have slid school isn't real work, at least to the Appalachian way of backwards, such as those in depressed areas, have ever thinking. managed to pull out of it until they developed a pride in "One fellow asked me: 'Norm, when you gonna get a real themselves and their background. job? You just set up there at Marshall and shoot off your "This is the basic principle that justifies to me why l put so mouth. You just learnt it outta books and are just passin' it much time and energy into my Appalachian Culture class. on." Appalachian culture has a lot of things going for it, a lot to be Education to Norman Simpkins is a real job, an important proud of. Unfortunately, Appalachians probably are one of job. And he has some definite ideas on what higher education the few people who have lost their cultural traditions-and I should be: won't go into the details why this is true. It would take too "If l were in charge of higher education in the whole long." United States, and l had the power to do it, I would require What, then, has been his overall goal in life? students to go to college at least 1,000 miles away from their "That's a question you can't answer, really," he said. "Oh, I homes. There are a number of reasons for this. They could suppose if you wanted to put it into high falutin' terms: I'd learn other people are different than they are, they could get like to leave the world a little better place because I was in it." more varied experiences. How would the Appalachian say it? "In the theory of social change I've been working on for a "I just don't know. Maybe that's the Appalachian way of number of years, the move varied your background, the more a­ putting it, I'm not sure. There are places, you know, where daptable you become. This is a hard row to hoe. Many Appa­ you can't always tell if you're being Appalachian or something lachians who go away fall by the wayside, don't like it on the else. We're not totally different from other people. I think outside and come back. I've seen this in my professional life­ that's enough of an ambition. I'm never going to get rich. I working with the Indians in the Southwest and in other places." want to enjoy what I'm doing while I'm around. I'm not His daughter, Karen, and son, Sean, are good examples of particularly concerned people will remember me when I'm the importance of a varied background, Simpkins believes. gone. As a matter of fact, I'd never want a building named "My daughter went to American University in Beirut after me, because sooner or later they're going to forget me (Lebanon) when she was a junior. She did her first two years and name it after somebody else or tear it down with a here at Marshall and being a 'faculty brat' is tough on a kid. bulldozer. She liked it so well in Beirut that she applied as a regular "I think if I can have affected peoples' lives so that they student, was accepted and graduated there. She came back to have a richer, more gratifying experience, I've done what I this country aod got her master's degree in anthropology from want to do."

7 Alumni will honor Moore April 20th

ARCH A. MOORE JR.

The Board of Directors of the Marshall University Alumni of the Class of 1924. Mrs. Leva Ridenour Hereford and Miss Association has voted to present the association's Dis­ Marie White are serving as co-chairman. tinguished Service Award to Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., A full two days of activities are planned this year, with Alumni President James L. Farley has announced. Alumni Day being re-designated as Alumni Weekend . Here is The governor has been invited to receive the award in the Saturday schedule: person at the annual Marshall Alumni Banquet, Saturday, April 20, in Memorial Student Center. 10:30 a.m.-Swimming and diving exhibition, wrestling Farley said the award was voted to Governor Moore match and Green Gals volleyball game, all at Gullickson Hall. because of his outstanding leadership in efforts to obtain a 11 a.m.-Marshall vs. VPI tennis match, Gullickson Courts. medical school for Marshall, operated in conjunction with the 1 : 3 0 p .m .-Alumni-Varsity football game, Fairfield Huntington Veterans Administration Hospital. The governor, Stadium. accompanied by Marshall President John G. Barker and U.S. Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert C. Byrd, delivered the 5:30-7 p.m.-Alumni reception, Grand Ballroom, Veterans formal medical school application to the director of the of Foreign Wars, 920 7th Avenue. (Cost: $1 per person.) Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27. 7:30 p.m.--Marshall Alumni Dinner, Memorial Student Farley said the medical school effort was only one of a Center. (Cost: $5 per person.) number of moves the governor has made in behalf of Marshall and that the award will recognize all of his activities in support Sunday's activities will include a varsity-alumni golf match of the university. in the morning at Riviera Country Club. Alumni will have an The banquet, scheduled for 7 :30 p.m., will be the highlight opportunity to play with members of the golf team and the of Alumni Weekend at Marshall. It also will include presen­ coaching staff. (Those wishing to participate in the golf tation of Distinguished Alumnus awards, to be announced matches should make reservations by writing or calling the later. The menu will feature prime rib of beef. Entertainment Office of Alumni Affairs.) will be provided by the Marshall Chamber Singers. Alumni will be invited to attend a "Rally Around the Plans also are being made for a 50th-year reunion gathering Herd" picnic Sunday afternoon. ,------,

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Please reserve seats in my name for the 1974 Marshall Alumni Banquet to be held Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Student Center. My check for $5 per person is enclosed. (Make checks payable to the Marshall University Alumni Association.)

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There was "Thunder in '73" but there's going to be "More Another attractive schedule which includes five home in '74." games in the AstroTurfed Fairfield Stadium and two games The 1974 Marshall University Thundering Herd football within I 00 miles of the Marshall campus has been put together team, now in the midst of spring drills to get ready for the by Athletic Director Joe McMullen. upcoming season next September, appears to have the talent Here's the schedule: and experience to become MU's first winning grid team in IO Sept. 14 at Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky. 7:30 p.m. years. 21 UNIVERSITY OF AKRON 7:30 p.m. Head Coach has been building his program for 28 MIAMI UNIVERSITY 7:30 p.m. three years and the Herd came very close to a winning season Oct. 5 at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 1:00 p.m. in 1973. The team won four and lost seven, but three of the 12 NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY 7:30 p.m. losses were cliffhangers. 19 WESTE RN MICH IGAN UNIVERSITY 1:30 p.m. The team will miss only three offensive starters and three Homecoming defensive starters from 1973 and a solid recruiting year will 26 at Bowling Green University 1:30 p.m. make the 1974 Herd the biggest, deepest and most Bowling Green, Ohio experienced squad Lengyel has had. Nov. 2 KENT STATE UNIVERSITY 1:30 p.m. Returning from last year's team are running backs Jon 9 at University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 7:30 p.m. Lockett and Bob Tracey. Each gained over 500 yards on the 16 at University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 7:30 p.m. ground last year and Tracey gained more than a I 00 yards in 23 at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 11 :00 a.m. each of the last three contest. Lockett, a junior-to-be from Hepzibath, W. Va. (near Clarksburg) and Tracey, a For information relating to tickets or the Big Green sophomore-to-be from Buffalo, N.Y., could give the Herd its Scholarship Fund, please complete the coupon below and mail best one-two running punch in decades. it to: ,------,

I ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE MARSHALL UN IVERSITY I P.O. BOX 1360 I HUNTINGTON, W. VA. 25715 I Name I I I City/State/Zip ______I Company I Please check boxes applicable: I 0 I am interested in purchasing season tickets for the 1974 Thundering Herd football season. 0 I will not be able to attend all of Marshall University's home football games, but please send me information I on how I can purchase single game tickets in the Alumni Section. I 0 I would like to know how I (or my company) can participate in the Big Green Scholarship Fund, which I provides grant-in-aids to Marshall University student-athletes. L------~ 9 10 Marshall Album ... BY C. T. MITCHELL

The lady at left, pictured in a typical turn-of-the-century pose, was Mrs. Naomi Everett, a member of the Marshall College faculty for many years. At the time this photograph was made--it appeared in the 1902 College Catalog--Mrs. Everett was first assistant to Principal L. J. Corbly. A native of Tennessee, she had moved to Harrison County, W. Va., when she was IS years old. She studied at Soule Female College in Murfreesboro, Tenn., at Steubenville (Ohio) Seminary, and at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Marshall, she served as principal of high schools at Clarksburg and Huntington for 16 years. She was elected first assistant to Corbly in 1897. The photograph above is of more recent vintage, having appeared in the 1950 Chief Justice. An obviously-victorious Marshall football squad carries Coach Cam Henderson off the field in Fairfield StadiUJD during the 1949 season. The "Old Man" wound up his football coaching career that year, closing with a 6-4 record, but remained very much on the scene for several additional years as head basketball coach.

I I Still another Marshall era is represented in this photograph, made in 1929. The college obviously had an on-campus baseball field at that time, complete with bleachers. The same field is still used for intramurals, but the Library (left

12 background) is larger now and if the same area were photographed today, you'd see the Science Hall (1950) in the right background. The photo was made by the now-departed Thomas Studio of Huntington.

13 PLAYERS HUDDLE AROUND COACH DANIELS FOR INSTRUCTIONS DURING TIME-OUT

14 LANKY BOB DANIELS (88) DEFENDS BASKET DU RING HIS PLAYING DAYS AT WESTERN KENTUCKY Reaching for the top ... BY SAM STANLEY Reaching for the top has always been Daniels' quest. It began when he was a youngster growing up in the hills of Baseball's legendary Dizzy Dean put it this way, "I may not Johnson County in Eastern Kentucky where there wasn't have been the best pitcher ever, but l was among'em." much for a boy to do but hunt, fish, or play basketball and Marshall basketball coach Bob Daniels looks at it a little baseball. differently. Thundering Herd basketball teams often have been Young Bob was probably known more for his baseball among the better teams in the country, but Daniels' goal is to ability as a youngster than for basketball. "I used to walk make them the best. along a lot of gravel roads going to school," he reminisced "A national championship should be the goal of every recently, "and l was always throwing rocks at something . coach in every sport," says the confident Marshall mentor .. His father also helped shape young Bob's desire to be the whose success here in two years is only a continuation of a best. "Dad took an old rollaway bed and made me a career that could carry him to the pinnacle in collegiate contraption in which l could throw at an area the size of the coaching circles. batter's strike zone. The baseball would always return to me When he talks about a national championship, he speaks on this downhill drainpipe, so l could throw at the thing as from experience. He won two back-to-back national titles in long and as often as l wanted." his first two years as a college head coach at Kentucky Bob was a two-sport star at Western Kentucky. In Wesleyan. The Owensboro school won the NCAA he was a starter for three years, scored 1,010 points, Division championship with Daniels at the helm in 1968 and and had 964 rebounds. He was an All- 1969. player under the late Coach Ed Diddle his junior and senior "I gained and the school gained about all we could at years. Kentucky Wesleyan," Daniels said. "We won the national In baseball, Bob was so good he received a $14,000 bonus championship. Here at Marshall it's a different level and until offer from the Cleveland Indians, but turned it down so he Marshall wins its first major college division national could finish college. He later played professional baseball in championship, there will always be that goal to reach, both for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for three years. me and the school." (Continued on page 16)

15 toughest November and December I've ever experienced as a coach." The Herd won seven of its first eight games but then lost three of four to fall to 8-4. Then with a 12-6 record, and with six of the last eight games on the road, another post-season tournament bid appeared in jeopardy. But the Herd never lost another regular season game and finished 20-6 on the season before losing to Fairfield ·in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament. The 1973-74 season appeared to be even more challenging for Daniels. Gone were the top four scorers from the NIT team, so the tall man from the Kentucky hills had to find a winning combination from one returning starter, a host of reserves, a transfer student who had sat out two years, a junior college transfer, a quartet of green untested freshmen and a part-time starting guard from the year before who had been a center in high school. The word around campus and town when pre-season drills began wasn't at all optimistic. Only a few could see a winning season and many were predicting fewer than IO wins. This only seemed to spur Daniels, his staff and players to work harder. Daniels flashes hand signals upcourt to Thundering Herd The work paid off as the Herd won its first nine games and during one of its victorious efforts. The Herd closed the 12 of its first 13. Not only the fans, but even the news media regular season with 17 victories against nine losses. were amazed with the record. The team picked up the nicknames of "The No-Name Gang" and "Un Heard-of Herd." (Continued from page 15) Daniels, not a man to hold back his feelings, was getting the "I was just about at the spot where I thought I could make last laugh over those who thought a winning season was an the majors," he said, "when I turned up with a bad arm. I was impossibility. 25 years old then so I didn't feel like hanging around to see if But remaining the honest man that he is, even Daniels the arm would get better." expressed his surprise. "To win 15 games this year is more of So he hung up his spikes and began a coaching career in an accomplishment than winning 20 last year." This was said which his won-loss record is overshadowed only by his hard when the team had a 16-6 record and again was a contender work, his concern for his players and his ability to get along for a post-season tournament. with just about whomever he meets. But, Daniels will never feel completely satisfied with the "An athlete needs an education. We tell our players that basketball program at Marshall until he can make the Herd their first responsibility is their books. They can't help the national champions. "Our objective is to win a national team or themselves without acceptable grades." championship. If we do a better job recruiting and can Daniels' combined high school basketball coaching record compete and win games from the best teams in the country, was 15 l wins and 66 loses in seven years ( 69 .6 per cent) at then we would have to feel the program is making progress." Sacramento and at Muhlenberg Central, both in Kentucky. Daniels is aware of what the Marshall fans want. "The goal Kentucky Wesleyan then beckoned his talents as head here has always been to have a team good enough to get an baseball and assistant basketball coach for three years invitation to a post-season tournament. I want that kind of (1964-67). His baseball teams compiled a 49-27 record (64.5 team every year, but our goal should be to win a national pct.). As an aide to head coach Guy Strong, he saw the championship, not just to get invited." basketball team win the NCAA college division national The fans are an important part of the Marshall program, championship in 1966 and finish third in 1967. Daniels believes. "They can pick you up in a close game. In 1968 it was Daniels who took over the basketball That's why there's a home court advantage. The players will program as Strong moved to Eastern Kentucky State respond to cheers." University. Wesleyan won the national college division crown There's more than noise involved, however. "The difference in 1968 and again in 1969. When Daniels left the Owensboro in the fans here," says the soft-spoken coach, "is their school to take the Marshall job he had the enviable record of sincerity. They want to know the players on an individual I IO wins and 36 losses (75.3 pct.) and his team had received basis. They stay after the game, they invite the players home an NCAA tournament bid every year of the five in which he for dinner. Even the fan who is not in a position to do this still was head coach. wants to." Bob took over what was considered a veteran team when he Daniels is married and he and his wife, Gayle, are the came to Marshall. The 1971 -72 team had won 23 games, had parents of two children, daughter Gay Lynn, 16, and son earned an invitation to the big NCAA tournament and three Scott, l l. The family is happy to be living in Huntington. "In starters were back for another year. fact, we've adjusted better and quicker than I thought we But it wasn't an easy task for Daniels. "This was a tough would ," Daniels said. program to take over because of its success. Others kept telling Marshall has had its share of outstanding basketball me about the things that worked the year before and they coaches, ranging from the legendary Cam Henderson, who didn't want to change. But if we had done the same thing, served for many years, to , a one-year head coach. then I would have been just a chaperone, not a coach." Now it has Bob Daniels. Daniels is a man who knows what he's doing and has the No matter what the future holds, the 38-year-old coach will utmost confidence in his coaching ability. "We changed the always take things as they come, but work as hard as ever to defense from a zone to man-to-man and put in a totally succeed. "I don't think a coach should get down after a loss or different offense. Believe me, it was tough because I had to get too elated after a win," he says. "After all, somebody has teach two coaches and 20 players a new system. It was the to go to practice on Monday and get things going again." 16 MARSHALL'S GREEN GALS--From left, kneeling, Donna Higgins, Ame Evans, Gloria Taylor, Mary Jane Muth, Sammie Lambert, Julia Bowen, Jennifer Lawrence, Susan Powers; standing, Manager Loretta Gensler, Assistant Trainer Becky Craycraft, Kathy Haas, Robin Vealey, Brenda Dennis, Barbara Sepcic, Barbara Spitz, Donna Basham, Trainer Susan Meadows, Assistant Coach Beverly Duckwyler, Coach Donna Lawson. They love basketball ... Editor's note: This article on the Marshall Green Gals was Women's intercollegiate athletics are becoming organized in prepared in late February. The Gals went on to defeat West Virginia and the Green Gals have fielded the best Fairmont State in the finals of the West Virginia Women's women's college basketball team in the state the past few Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament to win the years. But elsewhere, women's varsity sports are as common as state championship for the fourth time in five years and boost men's and some states not only have competition on the high their season's record to 17 wins and five losses. As the Marshall school level, but state tournaments as well. Alumnus went to press, they were preparing to move into the But it matters little whether you are male or female, to play midwestern regionals of the national women's championship athletics at the varsity level you have to like the game and playoffs. ·accept discipline. The Green Gals aren't all physical education majors, nor are they excluded from other forms of university "Good six-foot tall players are a dime a dozen," says one life. Attractive, bright and versatile, they share one common coach. interest-they love playing basketball. "I'd give up an arm for a good six-foot player," says Despite injuries, missed social engagements and some peer another coach. criticism, the team members continue to practice and work The first quote comes from Bob Daniels, coach of Marshall together. The team spends between 20 and 25 hours a week University's Thundering Herd whose smallest player stands practicing. six-feet. · The discipline pays off. Susan Meadows, Clarksburg, W. The second quote comes from Donna Lawson. She coaches Va., graduate student who serves as trainer to the team, played the Marshall Green Gals whose tallest player stands five feet, against MU's Green Gals for two years as a student at IO inches. Fairmont State. But whereas a large difference in height prevails on the "We didn't play Marshall in regular season play, just in men's and women's varsity basketball teams at MU, one thing tournament competition, but we thought of them as 'the team both teams have in common is success. (Continued on page 18)

17 MARY JANE MUTH (21) DRIVES FOR BASKET AS DONNA BASHAM (LEFT) SCREENS

(Continued from page 17) Ky., senior, averaged over 12 points a game. Center Donna to beat.' The Green Gals are more advanced than most teams Basham, 5-10 Scarbro, W. Va., sophomore, pulled down more I've seen, and the most admired in the state." than seven rebounds per game. The players feel the discipline they are taught by Coach The women athletes take the game seriously and don't have Lawson carries over to their studies. And like most college much respect for those fans who come to jeer rather than to athletes, some plan academic loads around basketball season cheer. "It's the stereotyped image some people have of women when traveling and practice take up so much of their time. athletes," said one. "Some still come to watch us play to Women's rules in basketball today are similar to that of the ridicule. But we want them to come watch us to see skill-not men. Teams play five persons at a time and four eight-minute women." quarters. The old regulations for women's basketball where Another says, "Girls have always wanted sports programs in each team had three defensive players and three offensive schools, but settled for what we could get during summer and players who remained on opposite ends of the court have been in gym class. It's going to change, but it took men's basketball changed. Opponents on this season's Green Gals' schedule included 50 years to get where it is today. It can't happen overnight for University of Tennessee, Western Carolina, Old Dominion, us either." Elon College, Winthrop College, Radford, Virginia Tech, Women's varsity athletics is rapidly progressing at Marshall. Western Michigan, Ohio University, Ohio State, Eastern Intercollegiate competition is already underway or planned for Kentucky and the University of Kentucky as well as state women in tennis, volleyball, basketball, swimming, golf, track opponents such as Concord, West Virginia University, and badminton. Badminton is also coed and includes male Fairmont State, Salem and Morris Harvey. students, too. The Green Gals won 17 of their first 22 games and were The basketball, volleyball and tennis teams have all won undefeated against state competition. more than one West Virginia Women's intercollegiate title. Dr. Robin Vealey and Brenda Dennis were the two top scorers Dorothy Hicks, chairman of the women's physical education for the Green Gals. Vealey, a 5-7 Charleston sophomore, department, guides the women's varsity program as associate averaged over 15 points a game and Dennis, a 5-7 Louisville, director of athletics.

18 Green Gals Coach Donna Lawson cheers her team to a victory in a Memorial Field House appearance. Coach Lawson, an assistant professor of physical education, has been a member of the Marshall faculty since 1967. A native of Chesapeake, W. Va., she taught at East Bank High School in Kanawha County for 10 years. She earned her A.B. and M.S. degrees at Marshall and has done adqitional graduate work at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Minnesota. Square dancing is one of her interests, and she was invited to serve as guest caller for a "West Virginia Weekend" celebration square dance at Kermit last fall.

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MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER GLEAMS IN THE SUNSHINE OF EARLY MARCH , 1974 A dream come true ... BY DON MEADOWS Where Shawkey was crowded, the Student Center is spacious. It has some ten meeting rooms, cafeteria, bookstore, The freshman was reading, her tiny body curled in a chair in lounges and Coffee House. It houses the manager's office, plus the lobby of Memorial Student Center. the offices of Alumni Affairs, Human Relations Center, Chief "Hi," I interrupted, "have you ever been to the old Union?" Justice, Student Cultural Events, and others. She looked up, puzzled. "Where?" The "room downstairs" no longer is regarded as a male "Old Shaw key Student Union ...ever been there?" bastion, off limits to coeds. " Downstairs" at Memorial Student She giggled. "What's a 'Shaw key'?" Center is a modern recreational complex that enables students It's not an uncommon response today. Fewer and fewer to bowl, play table tennis, shoot pool or a number of other students on campus remember Shawkey Student Union. Some activities. juniors had been there a couple of times and most seniors The Coffee House represents a revolutionary change in the recall spending many hours in the little white building during life of university students. Beer is sold there. their freshman year. Yes, times have changed, but with few exceptions, everyone But for the most part it is the alumni who recall the old who knew Shawkey and is familiar with the new center will Student Union. They jump at the chance to re-live with you tell you it's for the better. the times they spent there. Don Morris, manager of the Center, probably realizes this They tell you about the crowded snack bar, the building's more than anyone. In 1945 he became manager of the old musty odor, punctuated by sizzling burgers and onions, the union, and he watched as it was torn down. juke box in the corner blaring out "Sincerely," "Hound "I cringed each time that old ball hit against the building," Dawg," "Splish Splash" and other favorites which sent bobby he said. "As bricks and mortar crumbled into dust, I could see sox-clad feet flying under skirts just inches above the ankles. myself and other people I came to know and love in those old They tell you of the Wednesday night "mixes," which, it rooms planning activities, or just having a good time." seemed, everyone on campus attended. The girls tell you about How does the new center compare to the old union? the room where pool tables were kept and where only the "There is no comparison," Morris answered quickly. most daring coed would venture. "Shawkey had one large meeting room, a couple of smaller Times have changed. rooms, juke box and snack bar and people elbow to elbow. The old Shawkey Student Union is gone. It fell to the The opposite is true here. But, the old union had one thing wrecking crews in 1972 and the land where it stood is a this building lacks - personality." parking lot. Personality? Rising proudly adjacent to the parking lot, the Memorial "It was an informal place ...the courting arena of the Student Center provides facilities undreamed of during the campus," Morris said. "Every organization had its own little Shawkey era. spot. If you needed to find someone, you knew just where to

20 DANCE FLOOR WAS A POPULAR SPOT IN SHAWKEY STUDENT UNION IN THIS EARLY l 9SO'S PHOTOGRAPH ... and a fond memory go. Every group's plaque was displayed on the wall and this, I but it has been no major problem." believe, helped everyone identify with it." The sale of beer at the Coffee House has been helpful, too, Morris hopes to engender this type of atmosphere in the Morris said. new student center, a task he admits will take years to "I don't think there is any question that this has had a accomplish. However, there already are indications he's positive influence on the Center and on campus life. If succeeding. students are going to drink beer, why not have it in a place Nancy McCallister, 18, a West Hamlin freshman, had never where you have control and knowledge of the atmosphere? heard of the old union. But, the Memorial Student Center? "The Coffee House has enabled us to bring live entertain­ "Oh, I just love it," she said, closing her book while ment here. Of course it's a departure from the philosophies of scanning the huge main lobby. "Everything is so nice ...so years gone by, but it's a reflection of the university's coming much room. This is my place (she pats the chair on which she's of age with the students," he said. sitting). I come here about every day to read or to see my Marshall's relationship with the Huntington-area community friends. I've met a lot of people here." also is being enhanced by the Memorial Student Center, Morris Mrs. Donna (Fisher) Wheeler, 1957 Marshall graduate and said. now third and fourth grade teacher at Center Point Grade "With Shaw key, we were very limited as to what activities School in Doddridge County, says the new center is better. we could schedule for organizations outside the university "No, this building doesn't have the warmth old Shawkey c'Ommunity. Some high schools held proms there, but had," she said, "but as an educational facility, it has more scheduling always was difficult because of university conflicts. value. Here you can be by yourself if you want to study, or "Here, we still put university first, but with more space it's you can meet with people. Actually, this (the new center) possible to accommodate more outside activities. This is good lends itself more to an informal atmosphere. The furniture is for several reasons," Morris said. "It exposes more people to arranged to encourage students to get together and talk, and Marshall and it helps us financially. be comfortable." "Our facilities are competitive with those in the area. This attitude of appreciation and respect for the new center During the Douglass High School Reunion last summer we by both undergraduates and alumni is a welcomed relief, handled a banquet and fed about 900 people. I don't know of Morris said. any other place in Huntington which could have done that." "Everyone was so fearful at one time that students might The Memorial Student Center is self-supporting, he said, "so not take care of the building. These fears were precipitated by we have to attract as many outside activities as possible. So, if difficulties experienced at Smith Hall. But, I believe students you know of anyone needing a place to meet, tell them about have pride in this building. We've had some vandalism, of us. We believe we've got a good thing here - and that means course - writing on rest room walls and that kind of thing - something good for the entire community."

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'It couldn't be that !imple ... '

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BY EVERETT N. ROUSH presentation and makes recruitment a more personal matter." Alumni Affairs Director "I think that might go here. Now, how deep do we go with fund-raising?" "That's left up to the chapter. For several years the Logan The question always comes up when a group of Marshall chapter has had great success in fund-raising with making alumni get together to chat, reminisce and enjoy being personal calls on their members. But Logan is a well­ together again. It happened at receptions in New York and in established chapter in a relatively small community. Washington. It happened in Roanoke, Charleston and even in "If we could get across the message to our alumni that all Huntington. Here's how the conversation went one recent gifts, regardless of amount, are vital to the program, we would evening. be in great shape. "If only half of our known 21,328 alumni each contributed "What can we do to help Marshall?" $IO a year, that would be more than $I 00 ,000. Do you realize "Organize the alumni in your area and become involved how many library books and scholarships that much money with programs which support the university." could provide for our students. "I'm so involved with local groups now, I don't have the "But, to answer your question, you decide when you are time for anything else." ready to become involved with fu nd-raising." "Well, it doesn't take that much time. In the beginning you "What else can we do?" probably will require two or three meetings to get organized, "Many things. For example, students need jobs. You may but after that, it all depends on which programs you want to know of an alumnus holding a key personnel position. Once become involved with. The Alumni Office will supply your contacted, that person could be of great help to our recent materials, programs, address lists, print your area newsletter graduates-and vice versa. and handle your mailings. And, we'll attend your major " Developing a close relationship with state and national meetings to help you organize your programs." legislators can be beneficial to the continuing growth and "It couldn't be that simple." development of the university. Alumni talking with the "You're right. It isn't simple. Planning and good judgment representatives from their respective areas can give Marshall a are the keys. If you have six to I 5 interested alums, each doing big boost in programs and finances. his or her part, no one is overworked. And, from the crowd "You might want to schedule an art exhibit from the here this evening, l 'd say you have the potential qf a strong, campus. Or be included in the tours of one of our excellent active chapter." music groups. Or have a dinner meeting with a campus "We are having a good turnout. I've heard quite a few say personality as the speaker. Schedule a picnic. Or, as you are they would like to become more active. If we did organize, doing tonight, hold a function around the local appearance of then what?" the Thundering Herd basketball team. · "Then you would decide which activities you might want "Chartering buses to return to the campus for Home­ to schedule." coming, Alumni Weekend, a play or an athletic event is "Like what?" becoming more popular now that gasoline supplies are tight. In "Probably the most important current project, besides your case, you could get a group rate from an airline." chapter development, is student recruitment. This year the "Okay, I get your point. Nine of us got together last week Alumni Association has financed six recruitment programs for and decided to try forming a chapter here. We'll recruit three the Office of Admissions and the Music Department, with or four more and have a meeting next month. Can you be another for high school counselors scheduled for late spring. here?" "We now have completed a project in which the Admissions "Call or write me at the Alumni Office, give me the date Office staff presents Marshall to students and counselors at and I'll be here. If you had already decided to form a chapter, meetings scheduled both in and out of state. why all the questions?" "Marshall's tuition is competitive with schools in this area. "I wanted to be sure we would get help from the campus. And, our programs, size and location attract many students. And, I just wanted to see what you'd say. Getting crowded in "Local alumni attending such a meeting and encouraging here, isn't it." students to atten~ Marshall enhance the university's "No, just a good crowd."

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